special problems of size, control and distribution.
As to Dean Gauss’ wholly uncritical “internationalism,” it would seem to have derived from the world of his Ann Arbor, Michigan, boyhood. His father, a Wuerttemburger, had left Germany because of the growing dominance of the Prussians in the time of Bismarck. Dean Gauss naturally associated “nationalism” with Prussian compulsion. There is no hint in his papers that he ever grasped the difference between a nationalism built on Western federative principles, with the individual constituting a firm check on the government, and the type of thing he abhorred in the autocracies of Central Europe.
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